Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
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Casey Fiesler is an American associate professor at University of Colorado Boulder who studies technology policy, internet law and policy, and public communication.
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Computer science
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Communication & Media Studies
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Heh I just saw a LinkedIn post arguing that we definitely know workplace AI is so much more capable than we think because of COURSE the companies that are having massive productivity gains are keeping details of their AI use under wraps in order to maintain a competitive advantage.
I just talked to a journalist about AI slop on Pinterest and as a result of some brief research have absolutely ruined my Pinterest algorithm. (Which is not a big deal since I haven't visited the site in probably five years, but it's definitely unusable now. :) )
Oh I love that this is the paper you picked, I don’t think many people have read this one! And I think it’s more interesting than the general Twitter ethics paper :)
Yesterday I keynoted the ALA Core Forum conference in Denver, and honestly, librarians continue to be one of my very favorite audiences. :)
Well the images are I believe all AI generated which means there is no copyright. (So not a DMCA issue…)
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social media platforms, and also a valuable
source of data for internet researchers. However, working with this kind of data also
presents novel ethical com...
dl.acm.org
If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Typically analysis of public data does not fall under IRB purview since it doesn't meet the legal definition of human subjects research.
Just came across a pre-print paper that analyzes an AI boyfriend subreddit. There are images from the subreddit that appear to be real people. (Since you can use generative AI to create a new image based on a photo.) There's an ethics statement: "public subreddits carry no privacy expectations" :-\
I seriously hate social media sometimes. The way that some people (not here) are coming for me for this video being “wrong” or basically for me not managing to cram an entire Applied Machine Learning class into 60 seconds of a *stand up comedy* set is wiiiiiild.
Apple TV’s new intro was done entirely practical, not CG 😮💨 #apple #appletv #tech #ios26 #iphone
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I would kind of love if Apple was the tech company to be like “eh we don’t really need to compete on AI, let’s be the ones to champion human creativity instead.” youtube.com/shorts/C3uLR...
Guess what percentage of comments I’ve already gotten on other platforms are people telling me I’m wrong lol
Standup comedy about AI ethics has to be a new level of dystopia right?
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
youtu.be
I do! (Occasionally, this was only the third time.) This is this set, there’s another on my YouTube channel too. youtu.be/4XdJ2xiPies
I am sometimes grateful that my constitutional law professor was so scary that I studied a lot haha.
Spending all day at an AI+Copyright conference at the law school that I (nominally) helped organize, and thinking once again that I should hang out with law professors more. :)
Standup comedy about AI ethics has to be a new level of dystopia right?
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
youtu.be
If you're interested in learning about why ChatGPT seems to want to date you, the way that AI might actually be our doom (spoiler: it's not the robot wars), and why you shouldn't put glue on your pizza, you might enjoy watching an information science professor do standup comedy. youtu.be/4XdJ2xiPies
I just got the video of the standup set I did a couple of weeks ago. :D (Currently working on getting it up on YouTube, hence the Canva screenshot haha.)
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 18
oh no we missed a serious marketing opportunity with this new one haha!
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Oh I don't think it really matters; it's just a question of whether they feel comfortable with the specific use case of the assignment.
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Part of this assignment will be talking to/interviewing people who use AI.
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
oh that's a great point, I'll ponder what that would look like
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
I don't understand this question either. :) What does it mean to "write against"?
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
I'm afraid I don't understand this question... why would they need recorded data?
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
For the specific assignment here, I'm imagining a combination of talking to/interviewing people they know who use AI + exploring online content like discussions in subreddits.
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
That would be very interesting! I mean I guess it would make things easier for me.
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
I did waffle on this a bit in large part due to concern about workload of coming up with alternative assignments etc... but I think it's important that students who are critical of AI also have an opportunity to learn about it. And the class will be small this first time so may as well try it out!
Dr. Casey Fiesler
@cfiesler.bsky.social
· Oct 15
I'm workshopping my AI & Society course for next semester, and in particular what I've been calling the "conscientious objector" path through the class (though I've given it another name). Thoughts?
I have not had this experience!
the ick I get at Sam Altman describing Sora as fanfiction... copyrightlately.com/openai-backt...
Sometimes I imagine what it might be like to teach an entire course on technology and intellectual property instead of just a single class. I feel like the students get the most absolutely chaotic but hopefully interesting brain dump from me in that class though haha.